We were playing a three-hour dance and in the middle of one song I broke a string and our lead singer Burton Cummings said ‘Well Randy’s broken string, we don’t have a spare guitar, we’re going to change the strings, so we’re going to take a break.’ So everybody was kind of sitting around talking so I had to get that guitar in tune for, so as I was on stage playing that E chord, a B chord, and another E chord with the strings just ringing. …I was just like, oh my god, I don’t want to forget this riff. So I stand up and I start playing. I turn my guitar up, playing it louder and I look into the audience and came running up was Burton Cummings and I yelled out sing something, sing anything. The first thing he sang was ‘American Woman’.